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Agoura is the name of the neighborhood in the southeastern area of the city of Agoura Hills, California, adjacent to the city of Calabasas in Los Angeles County. Agoura was the historical name of the area, before much of the area was developed and before the incorporation of the city of Agoura...
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Ruggles of Red Gap

Ruggles of Red Gap was serialized beginning December 26, 1914 in the Saturday Evening Post and became a best selling novel in 1915 by Harry Leon Wilson , adapted for the Broadway stage as a musical the same year , and made into a movie several times...

Initial release date:

  • 1935

Runtime:

  • 90 min (54 hs )

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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is a 1963 American comedy film directed by Stanley Kramer about the madcap pursuit of $350,000 in stolen cash by a diverse and colorful group of strangers. The ensemble comedy premiered on November 7, 1963. Four...

Initial release date:

  • Nov 7, 1963

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Runtime:

  • 192 min (115 hs )

Estimated budget:

  • 9,400,000 (US$)

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Bwana Devil

Bwana Devil is a 1952 drama based on the true story of the Tsavo maneaters. It was written, directed, and produced by Arch Oboler, and is considered the first color, American 3-D feature. It started the 3-D boom in the US film making industry from...

Initial release date:

  • Nov 26, 1952

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Runtime:

  • 79 min (47 hs )

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Van Helsing

Van Helsing is a 2004 American action/horror film about vigilante vampire hunter Gabriel Van Helsing, written, produced, and directed by Stephen Sommers. The film stars Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale. The film opened on May 7, 2004. Based on a...

Initial release date:

  • May 7, 2004

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Rating:

PG-13 (USA)

Runtime:

  • 132 min (79.2 hs )

Estimated budget:

  • 160,000,000 (US$)

Screenplay by:

The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas

The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas is a 2000 motion picture and prequel to the 1994 film based on the Hanna-Barbera animated television show, The Flintstones, produced by Amblin Entertainment, Hanna-Barbera Productions and distributed by Universal...

Initial release date:

  • Apr 28, 2000

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Rating:

PG (USA)

Runtime:

  • 90 min (54 hs )

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Rainy Season

Rainy Season is a short horror story by Stephen King, first published in an anthology titled Midnight Graffiti, and later included in King's Nightmares and Dreamscapes collection. A young husband and wife on summer vacation rent a house in a small...

Galaxina

Galaxina is a low-budget 1980 American science fiction movie, best remembered for its lead actress, Playboy Playmate of the Year (for 1980) Dorothy Stratten (who was murdered shortly after the movie's release). Galaxina is a parody of Star Wars,...

Initial release date:

  • 1980

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Runtime:

  • 95 min (57 hs )

Of Human Hearts

Of Human Hearts is a 1938 film directed by Clarence Brown and starring Walter Huston, James Stewart and Beulah Bondi. Bondi was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In the days leading up to the American Civil War, a young...

Initial release date:

  • Feb 11, 1938

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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral is a 1957 movie starring Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp and Kirk Douglas as Doc Holliday about the famous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona Territory. The movie was based on a real event which took place on...

Initial release date:

  • 1957

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Runtime:

  • 122 min (73.2 hs )

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask)

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972) is Woody Allen's fourth film, consisting of a series of short sequences loosely inspired by Dr. David Reuben's book of the same name. The film was an early smash for...

Initial release date:

  • Sep 1972

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Runtime:

  • 87 min (52 hs )

Produced by:

Foxy Brown

Foxy Brown is a 1974 blaxploitation film written and directed by Jack Hill. It stars Pam Grier as the title character, described by one character as "a whole lot of woman" who showcases unrelenting sexiness while battling the villains. When her...

Initial release date:

  • Apr 5, 1974

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Runtime:

  • 94 min (56 hs )

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The Hour-Glass Sanatorium

The Hour-Glass Sanatorium (Polish: Sanatorium Pod Klepsydrą) is a 1973 Polish film directed by Wojciech Has. It is an adaptation of Bruno Schulz's story collection Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (Sanatorium Pod Klepsydrą). The film won...

Initial release date:

  • 1973

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Runtime:

  • 124 min (74.4 hs )

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Herbie Rides Again

Herbie Rides Again is the second in a series of movies made by Walt Disney Productions starring Herbie the Love Bug, a white Volkswagen racing Beetle with a mind of its own. The movie starred Helen Hayes as Grandma Steinmetz, Stefanie Powers as...

Initial release date:

  • Jun 6, 1974

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Rating:

G (USA)

Runtime:

  • 88 min (53 hs )

Produced by:

Blast From the Past

Blast from the Past is a 1999 American romantic comedy-drama film starring Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, Sissy Spacek, Christopher Walken, and Dave Foley. Calvin Webber (Christopher Walken) is a brilliant, eccentric, and paranoid Caltech...

Initial release date:

  • Jan 27, 1999

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Runtime:

  • 112 min (67.2 hs )

Son of Paleface

Son of Paleface (1952), is a western comedy film and sequel to The Paleface (1948), directed by Frank Tashlin and written by Tashlin, Joseph Quillan and Robert L. Welch. It is widely regarded as superior to the earlier movie. Son of Paleface...

Initial release date:

  • 1952

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Runtime:

  • 95 min (57 hs )

Gone with the Wind

Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American drama romance film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel of the same name and directed by Victor Fleming (Fleming replaced George Cukor). The epic film, set in the American South in and around the time of...

Initial release date:

  • 1939

Rating:

G (USA)

Runtime:

  • 222 min (133 hs )

Estimated budget:

  • 3,900,000 (US$)

Produced by:

Breaker! Breaker!

Breaker! Breaker! is a 1977 action film starring Chuck Norris. The story follows a truck driver, John David "J.D." Dawes (Norris), who must infiltrate a desert town and save his brother, Billy (Michael Augenstein), who is imprisoned by the town's...

Initial release date:

  • May 6, 1977

Tom Sawyer

Tom Sawyer was a 1973 theatrical version of the Mark Twain boyhood adventure story, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It starred Johnny Whitaker as Tom Sawyer, Jodie Foster as Becky Thatcher and Jeff East as Huckleberry Finn. Native American actor Kunu...

Initial release date:

  • Mar 15, 1973

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Runtime:

  • 104 min (62.4 hs )

Union Pacific

Union Pacific is a 1939 film about the building of the railroad across the American West. The story is based upon the novel Trouble Shooter, written by the prolific Western fiction author, Ernest Haycox. One of the last bills signed by President...

Initial release date:

  • 1939

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Runtime:

  • 135 min (81 hs )

Screenplay by:

Fancy Pants

Fancy Pants is a 1950 American comedy film, directed by George Marshall starring Lucille Ball and Bob Hope. A B-grade stage actor who always messes up the role of a butler by spilling a tray's contents onto an actress because he's kinda creepy (once...

Initial release date:

  • 1950

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House II: The Second Story

House II: The Second Story is the 1987 sequel to the 1986 film, House. While it is a sequel, this film ignores the storyline and characters from the first film, in favor of a new supernatural comedy. Also, the film's tone was much lighter than the...

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Runtime:

  • 88 min (53 hs )

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Santa Fe Trail

Santa Fe Trail is a 1940 western film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. Despite glaring historical inaccuracies and racist overtones, the film was one of the top-grossing films of the year, being the...

Initial release date:

  • Dec 28, 1940

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Runtime:

  • 110 min (66 hs )

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Our Lips Are Sealed

Our Lips Are Sealed is a 2000 direct-to-video film featuring Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen. The film was set and filmed in Sydney, Australia. The family of twin sisters Maddie and Abby Parker are placed in the FBI's Witness Protection Program...

Initial release date:

  • 2000

Runtime:

  • 89 min (53 hs )

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Red River Range

Red River Range is a 1938 "Three Mesquiteers" film starring John Wayne. The Cattlemen's Association has called in the Mesquiteers to find cattle rustlers. They get Tex Riley to pose as Stony so Stony can arrive posing as a wanted outlaw. This gets...

Initial release date:

  • 1938

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Runtime:

  • 56 min (34 hs )

Tales of Wells Fargo

Tales of Wells Fargo is an American Western television series that ran from March 18, 1957 to June 2, 1962 on NBC. Produced by Revue Productions, the series aired in a half-hour format until its final season when it expanded to an hour. Set in the...

Mata Hari

Mata Hari is a 1931 pre-code film loosely based on the life of Mata Hari (the stage name of Margaretha Geertruida Zelle), an exotic dancer/courtesan executed for espionage during World War I. The film stars Greta Garbo in the title role. The film is...

Initial release date:

  • Dec 26, 1931

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 89 min (53 hs )

Norbit

Norbit is a 2007 American romantic comedy film directed by Brian Robbins and starring Eddie Murphy and Thandie Newton. Produced by Davis Entertainment and Tollin/Robbins Productions, the film also stars Terry Crews, Clifton Powell, Lester "Rasta"...

Initial release date:

  • Feb 9, 2007

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Rating:

PG-13 (USA)

Runtime:

  • 102 min (61.2 hs )

Mad at the Moon

Mad at the Moon is a 1992 horror/western written and directed by Martin Donovan. A frontier woman pursues a card-playing rogue until his constant rejections convince her that he'll never want to be with her. Then she marries the quiet boy next door,...

Initial release date:

  • 1992

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Runtime:

  • 98 min (59 hs )

Your Face

Your Face is a 1987 Oscar-nominated animated short film by Bill Plympton. It involves a man seated in a chair crooning about the face of his lover, and as he sings, his own face starts to distort in various different ways. Along with several other...

Gang of Roses

Gang of Roses is a 2003 Western action drama film written and directed by Jean-Claude La Marre. It starred Monica Calhoun, Lil' Kim, Lisa Raye, Charity Hill, Bobby Brown, Stacy Dash, and Marie Matiko. The film starts off with Left Eye Watkins (Brown...

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Runtime:

  • 94 min (56 hs )

Tall in the Saddle

Tall in the Saddle is a 1944 western movie starring John Wayne as a cowboy and Ella Raines as his fierce bullwhip-brandishing love interest. The screenplay was co-written by actor Paul Fix and the film was directed by Edwin L. Marin.

Initial release date:

  • 1944

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Runtime:

  • 87 min (52 hs )

Produced by:

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Night Riders

Night Riders is a 1981 film. There are other previous films of the same name. See Night Riders (disambiguation). Shortly after the World War I and creation of the new Czechoslovak Republic, two war veterans are confronted in a small village in the...

Initial release date:

  • 1981

Runtime:

  • 88 min (53 hs )

Maid of Salem

Maid of Salem is a 1937 film made by Paramount Pictures, directed by Frank Lloyd, and starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray. It tells the story of a young girl in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692, who has an affair with adventurer. She is...

Initial release date:

  • Mar 3, 1937

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Runtime:

  • 85 min (51 hs )

Munster, Go Home

Munster, Go Home! is an American film based on the 1960s sitcom The Munsters. The film reunited the cast of the show, except that Marilyn was played by Debbie Watson instead of Pat Priest. The film was well received when it was released in theaters...

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Runtime:

  • 97 min (58 hs )

Schlock

Schlock is a 1973 low-budget satire film, written and directed by filmmaker John Landis. The film is the first credited project by Landis, who also starred as the title role. It opened in Hollywood in March 1973 and in West Germany on 17 September...

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Runtime:

  • 80 min (48 hs )

L.A. Heat

L.A. Heat is a 1989 police movie directed by Joseph Merhi and starring Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs and Jim Brown.

Winds of the Wasteland

Winds of the Wasteland (1936) is a western film, starring John Wayne and Phyllis Serf. The film was directed by Mack V. Wright, and was released by Republic Pictures, not to be confused with Republic serials. The rights on this movie haven't been...

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Runtime:

  • 54 min (32 hs )

Whispering Smith

Whispering Smith is a 1948 western film starring Alan Ladd as a railroad detective assigned to stop a gang of train robbers. It is based on a novel by Frank H. Spearman and a previous 1926 film adaptation starring H.B. Warner in the title role with...

Initial release date:

  • Dec 9, 1948

Runtime:

  • 88 min (53 hs )

Streets of Laredo

Streets of Laredo is a 1949 western film starring William Holden, Macdonald Carey and William Bendix as three outlaws who rescue a young girl, played by Mona Freeman. When they become separated, two reluctantly become Texas Rangers, while the third...

Initial release date:

  • May 27, 1949

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 93 min (56 hs )

Produced by:

Branded

Branded is a 1950 western film starring Alan Ladd, Mona Freeman, Charles Bickford, and Robert Keith. It was adapted from the novel Montana Rides Again by Max Brand. A gunfighter on the run from the law is talked into posing as the long-lost son of a...

Initial release date:

  • 1950

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Runtime:

  • 104 min (62.4 hs )

Produced by:

Phantom Thunderbolt

Initial release date:

  • 1933

Caddie Woodlawn

Initial release date:

  • 1990

Missing Brendan

Initial release date:

  • 2003

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Angels Hard as They Come

Initial release date:

  • 1971

Lightning the White Stallion

Initial release date:

  • 1986

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Sweet Justice

Initial release date:

  • 1992

The Red Pony

Based upon the novella by John Steinbeck, a ranch boy is gifted with a colt, grows to love him but the colt escapes, with tragic results.

Initial release date:

  • Mar 28, 1949

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